"The real sting of suffering is not misfortune itself, not even the pain or the injustice of it, but the apparent god-forsakenness of it. Pain is endurable, but the seeming indifference of God is not. Sometimes we picture him lounging, perhaps dozing, in some celestial deck chair, while the hungry millions starve to death . . . The Cross smashes to smithereens this terrible caricature of God. We are not to envisage him on a deck chair, but on a cross. The God who allows us to suffer, once suffered himself in Christ . . .The Cross of Christ is the proof of God's personal, loving solidarity with us in our pain." (John Stott, The Cross of Christ)